Leigh Drogen

I'm totally buying this when i get cats after moving into my new place. I also accept that it will most likely lead to me being the but of many tech entrepreneur jokes when my company is completely undone via my accounts getting hacked through my internet connected pet food dispenser.

Hey ProductHunt! We're stoked to launch Forcerank which is basically weekly fantasy sports for the stock market, a really fun market based contest for real cash. It's the culmination of a lot of thinking about how to change the corrupt and biased Buy/Sell/Hold regime of Wall Street stock ratings by collecting data from the contests. At @Estimize we did it with earnings and economic estimates,...

This was so inevitable, I wrote about it a few years ago, truly believe if you get this right it'll be a huge business. So much time is wasted on these apps and the behavioral attributes of humans in this setting is not always intuitive, A/B testing is a must, well done.

Brilliant!

Thanks for the shout @howardlindzon!

I'm not one to hate on another startup often, but oh man. "The problem with the stock exchange is that until now you needed a stack of cash and a lot of financial know-how to play the markets. BUX is going to change all that." Hahahahahahahahah. You do need a lot of financial know how to "play the markets". And the fact that they would use "play the markets" in their marketing says it all, ugh,...

Thanks @schlaf!

I've tried a few of these iOS apps and the biggest problem is that I don't understand a damn thing about what I wrote down the next day. Basically the second you write it down you lose all the context to what the dream was about and are just left with words. I like the structured data aspect of this though where they just track key words, that might be the most useful thing, keywords for...

@vpsingh @eric_seufert yes, we call this reflexivity in behavioral economics

Here's the blog post I wrote when we launched it, I think everything in there still holds true. http://blog.estimize.com/post/80719121605/announcing-the-launch-of-mergerize-com I'm a heavy believer in wisdom of crowds, on a few levels. 1) the crowd is a great indicator of sentiment, and it's extremely important to understand sentiment regardless of accuracy. Compiling a structured searchable...

By the way, Product Hunt = brilliant.

So Mergerize is definitely a very raw MVP, we built it in a week as a labs project at Estimize, and one of the questions we had about the site was, what type of cadence was going to take place with traffic and contribution. The system right now doesn't encourage people to input the same prediction twice (same target same acquirer). But it's very valuable for everyone to understand how popular a...